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ON THE HOOSE IN CALVES. 
To the Editors of u The Veterinarian 
Gentlemen, 
May I ask through the medium of your Journal the best me¬ 
thod of treating the disease among calves called the Hoose ? The 
symptoms are, a difficulty of breathing, cough, and putting out the 
tongue: the cause , evidently a worm engendered in the trachea 
and bronchial tubes. Those kept in moist situations are most 
subject to it, and this summer it has been unusually fatal in my 
circuit. I have often succeeded by giving ol. tereb. in ounce 
doses continued for four days in succession. 
An early answer will oblige 
A Farrier, 
and Constant Reader of your Publication. 
Doncaster, 19th Sept. 1831. 
THE CATTLE, SHEEP, &c. OF CORNWALL, 
THEIR ORIGIN, PRESENT CHARACTER, MANAGEMENT, AND 
DISEASES. 
By Mr. W. F. Karkeek, V. S'., Truro . 
Ti n, fish, and copper, have ever been considered the staple com¬ 
modities of the county of Cornwall; whilst agriculture has been 
generally viewed as a secondary object of pursuit. Pasturing 
cattle and cultivating the soil were undoubtedly the common em¬ 
ployments of the aborigines; but there is great reason to believe 
that their attention was not long confined to the vegetable produc¬ 
tions of the earth, after they discovered that greater riches might 
be torn from its bowels than reaped on its surface. 
Very little can be offered on the state of Cornish agriculture 
before the Roman conquest, except mgre conjecture. When 
Caesar invaded the island, the Danmoniahl* (the inhabitants of 
Devon and Cornwall) possessed grea|^tyiiiibeprs of cattle: it was 
their practice to keep large herds mf^o® uninhabited grounds 
that skirted the confines of their rapmry. 
They are supposed to have derived great advantages in the art 
of agriculture from their Roman masters; for though conquest 
strode before the Roman legions, yet in their rear the arts and 
sciences made their appearance: 
“ She bow’d the body, but enlarg’d the mind.” 
